About Jim Yong Kim: Jim Yong Kim is a Korean American physician and anthropologist who has served as the 12th President of the World Bank since July 1, 2012.
We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.
I like to change people's sense of what's possible.
A lot of young people don't think they can make a difference. That's really what I am at Dartmouth to do. I'm there to tell the young people, 'Look, a few committed souls can change the world.'
The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.
Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings.
Hope is a moral choice.
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a de...
In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback a...
Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for ...
If you look at three diseases, the three major killers, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, the only disease for which we have really good drugs is HIV. And it's very simple: because there's a market in the United States and Europe.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce...
Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.
I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of th...
I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.
Haiti's economy cannot be built by and benefit just a privileged few. It must be built by and benefit all Haitians.
